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- Title: State Ex Rel. Kist v. Ball
- Author : Supreme Court Of Indiana
- Release Date : January 25, 1945
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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Appellee was indicted for voluntary manslaughter in the death of her husband, Julian T. Sullivan. The lower court sustained a motion for directed verdict in appellees favor and rendered judgment of acquittal thereon. This is an appeal by the State on a reserved question of law under the provisions of the fourth clause of Burns § 9-2304 (1956 Replacement), Acts 1905, ch. 169, § 325, p. 584; 1955, ch. 315, § 1, p. 968. Appellants only assigned error is that the trial court erred in sustaining appellees motion for directed verdict of acquittal.[Footnote 1] The basis for such motion to instruct was that (a) the prosecution failed to prove a corpus delicti, and (b) the prosecution failed to prove the element of intent to the degree required by law for the doctrine of reasonable doubt.